ABOUT THE ARTIST

Glenn S. Jacobsen

​Glenn was born and raised in Helena, Montana and has lived in Alaska for the last 23 years. Inspired by his father, an avid hunter, his grandfather, an ex-rodeo cowboy and his mother (his most honest art critic), his passion for art, adventure and the great outdoors started early and grew quickly. Glenn is a self-taught artist, and at a very early age, started drawing and sculpting the people and animals around him. Scenes and animals from a hunting trip, horses in the corral, or simply random people on the street or sitting in church, became the subjects of his early work as a child. In the summer of 1995, Glenn had the opportunity to go to Alaska; a life-long dream had finally come to fruition. Upon seeing the vast expanses of land, numerous herds of caribou and the enormous brown bears, Glenn had found a new home.​

ARTIST STATEMENT

'When I thank God for the many gifts and people in my life (and I do), my art is right there at the top of that list. My work has a broad range of mediums and subjects from human figurative and liturgical, to animals. The one commonality that all of my pieces share is detail; be it a track in the dirt, a broken tooth on a bear, or hidden symbolism in a religious piece, there is always something to look at. I thrive off unpredictability and the lurking chaos in what lies just around the next corner. This is how I see the world, and this is how I tell my stories.'